Folding shirt card and blank therefor
AssigneeChampion International Corporation
InventorGeorge Webinger
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Abstract
A shirt card, formed of a unitary blank of paperboard, for supporting a shirt during transport and display. The shirt is secured to the card without the necessity of pins. The shirt card is foldable and is self-locking in the folded position. The card comprises a main panel, a central fold line separating the main panel into top and bottom sections, a collar receiving extension at the top edge of the top section, a pair of slits receiving the sleeves of the shirt, a second set of slits receiving the sides of the shirt, and a tab and slit locking mechanism to lock the main panel in the folded position. The collar receiving extension can have a pair of opposed wing flaps for fully supporting the collar. A clothes hanger is received in the body portion of the shirt to support the shirt card with the shirt attached thereto.
Claims7
A shirt card for supporting a shirt having a body portion with a collar at the top, a tail at the bottom and two sleeves at the sides, comprising:
- a main panel having a top edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge and a second side edge forming the periphery thereof;
- a fold line extending between said side edges dividing said main panel into a top section and a bottom section, the body portion of the shirt overlying said top and bottom sections;
- means, in said top section, for receiving the sleeves of the shirt;
- means, located in said bottom section, for receiving the sides of the shirt;
- said means including a pair of slits extending from the interior of said bottom section to the outer periphery thereof, and
- means, located in said top section and in said bottom section, for locking said sections together upon folding thereon about said fold line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.